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Astronaut Julie Payette is assisted by a SCUBA-equipped diver during emergency bailout training. The STS-96 mission specialist has deployed a life raft following a simulated parachute drop into water. Payette, who represents the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), was joined by five NASA astronauts for the training session in the Johnson Space Center's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL). Those six will be joined by a Russian cosmonaut aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery for the STS-96 mission later this year.